EVERY beginning anticipates an end. Even the holy book underlines extensively that there is time for everything. And so the reality has dawned on all of us that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has bowed out as the curtain fell on him in this world which to him has been a massive stage on which he played out his part with an impact unignorable.

EVERYONE, young and old alike felt the impact of the fuel subsidy removal and nationwide strike that accompanied the implementation.

ONE of the notorious quirks bedeviling governance in Nigeria is the tendency for what started out as a firm, decisive and desirable government action to unceremoniously fizzle out into blatant back-tracking or abrupt disinterest and lingering inaction, often witnessing a pathetic return to business as usual.

BORN in 1918 at Okobia to the the Gbinije Royal Family of Okobia in Okpe Local Government Area(Paternal) and the Agbarha/Akpeta Family of Evwreyin-Ugolo in Okpe Local Government Area all of Delta State, Nigeria and consistent with the Achebian dictum that “the chick that will grow old will be known the day it is born”, Chief Patrick A. Gbinije started displaying infantile vibrancy and unusual finesse at very early age.

Nigerians have almost stopped bemoaning the crises that have bedevilled their football, but what is numbing is the cascading from its Olympian heights in a free for all fashion – on the pitch, on the board, and in rankings by FIFA. It is this free fall that has left most pundits and global admirers dazed on what has become the lots of Nigerian football.